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14 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

This story is nuts.  And its looking like it went through alaska and Canada to get to Montana.  

 

 

You can't control the navigation of these things once they're launched.

They travel with the wind.

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29 minutes ago, sherpa said:

 

You can't control the navigation of these things once they're launched.

They travel with the wind.

 

Um, from CNN:

 

“An advantage of balloons is that they can be steered using onboard computers to take advantage of winds and they can go up and down to a limited degree. This means they can loiter to a limited extent.

“A satellite can’t loiter and so many are needed to criss-cross an area of interest to maintain surveillance,” he said.

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Between November 1944 and April 1945, the Japanese launched about 9,300 balloons from sites on Honshu, of which about 300 were found or observed in the U.S., with some in Canada and Mexico.[1] The balloons traveled on high-altitude and high-speed currents over the Pacific Ocean, today known as the jet stream, and used a sophisticated ballast system to control altitude on their three-day flight. Despite high hopes for the operation, the bombs were largely ineffective due to damp conditions and malfunctions, causing only minor damage and six deaths (from a single civilian incident in Oregon in May 1945). The Fu-Go balloon bomb was the first weapon to possess intercontinental range, with its flights being the longest-ranged attacks in the history of warfare at the time.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb

Posted
22 minutes ago, OrangeBills said:

 

Um, from CNN:

 

“An advantage of balloons is that they can be steered using onboard computers to take advantage of winds and they can go up and down to a limited degree. This means they can loiter to a limited extent.

“A satellite can’t loiter and so many are needed to criss-cross an area of interest to maintain surveillance,” he said.

 

An extremely limited extent, and the minute the US got concerned about their loitering or intel capability they would be dealt with.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Wonderful! That settles it then. They were actually intending to do surveillance on their wet markets. 

 

Every once in a while the Chinese do something really ridiculous.

Having a Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman state that they had no intention of violating Us airspace when there are thousands of people looking at the exact, real time direct violation, is right up their alley.

The winds aloft in the middle of winter are the most predictable of the entire year.

If you launch this thing west of the Aleutian Islands, it sure as hell is going to violate US and Canadian airspace.

 

Admittedly, this thing is in the stratosphere where the winds are much lighter than at air travel routes, but you're guaranteed the thing is going east.

 

More interesting would be to know if it is transmitting, and what. 

 

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“It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

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I’m betting that thing was headed directly for Orchard Park in hopes of uncovering some fresh new images of the Bills proposed stadium…which we all know is an extremely tightly kept national secret! 

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Hopefully we are hacking whatever its transmitting.  

 

Wonder if we do similar over China Nuke sites?   like those Silo farms they have been building.

 

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2021/11/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-silo-construction/

 

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2021/07/china-is-building-a-second-nuclear-missile-silo-field/

 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/30/china-nuclear-weapons-silos-arms-control/

 

 

Posted
1 hour ago, Tiberius said:

“It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

  

 

And if you believe that I have a Huawei router to sell you. 

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7 minutes ago, TSOL said:

  

 

And if you believe that I have a Huawei router to sell you. 

This administration is a complete joke.  Our airspace has been violated.  Just shoot it down.  Recover the wreckage and determine its purpose.     

 

  https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-says-hell-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-as-soon-as-hes-done-letting-it-spy

 

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Posted (edited)

It's over Montana , not NJ. Shoot it down and nothing will get damaged.

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